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Message no. 1
From: Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject: Re: Mages and Space (that little empty space....)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 05:56:16 -0500
> Re: Mages and Space (that little empty spcae....) (Spike , Wed 8:15)

> | If that kind of thing worries you. Hormone shots can replace the
> |function, cloning can replace the organs, and surgery can improve both.
> |Do you really think mutilation is gonna get you very far as an
> |interrogation technique in SR, at least with anybody who really has
> |something worth hiding? Sure, your punk on the street is scared, but
> |he's a pushover anyhow.
>
> How about a permanent manipulation spell that not only removed the
> genitalia, but also alters the victims DNA slightly, so that it thinks he
> never had one?
>
> <EEGMG>
> --

If that were possible, a "cure (foo) gentic conditon" spell would
be a lot easier. Mongoose would still be a player character, not having
caught a nasty meta-virus that may have no cure. You can't make a
peremant spell that sustains an condition unatural to the target, so the
castration spell is probably out, as well, except as a "create flatscar"
spell for damage already done. You could do a sustained spell and SAY
its permenant, though... Same as a "decrease attribute" spell, justa
special "attribute". Actually more of a shapechange, but still...
But really, I can't believe you think as spell that manipulates
gentics is a clever GM trick, when it leads to "create (foo) cultured
bioware" spells so "logically". Don't there, or your EP's will munch
you down so fast it ain't funny.

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